[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough.

  • Pontefract (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART TWO PREVALENCE op AND CONTROL 0VSR INFECTIVE ATI) OTHER DISEASES, The following table gives details of the incidence of notifiable diseases (other than tuberculosis). T a b : lj e IV ...... J an/1 Apl/ ? J ul/ ; Oct/', Mar 'Jun !Sep Deo 1. .. J Total L ;No» -of oases Deaths admitted to —7 • j .. . ... j ... - - . - Scarlet Fever 5 J 2 s 2 1 29 | 38 30 Whooping 2 39 24 22 | 87 ** j 6 j Cough 1 ! i t i Chicken-pox 383 j 175 25 | i 14 i 597 i “* I 5 1 Pneumonia 2 8 i ! 9 20 f 1 Puerperal - — j i 1 1 j - Pyrexia ] i Dysentery 1 - - 1 j - 1 1 Measles 2 10 80 94 186 i 8 Erysipelas 3 1 1 5 i - | Food — 12 12 - j Poisoning I 1 Ophthalmia 1 1 - 2 - — Neonatorum Femphigus — — - 1 Neonatorum ! | | Poliomyelitis - 1 1 1 1 3 i — 2 ! Typhoid Fever — 1 i 1 i - 1 ! i Meningococcal 1 { \ . Infection. — — 2 I 2 2 | Encephalitis i ^ - - 1 1 i — - : Diphtheria — - | - — — i ; ^ ■ — • 395 ;239 j 136 b*i f 955 - 55 Certain of the above figures call for comment. Ileaaleg. Measles continues to follow its two yearly cyolo and the figure of 185 oases is, therefore, to be expected as against 651 cases last year and 127 cases in 1950*-